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State departments and agencies to lend their
assistance in further study of the system.
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WHEREAS, The counties and municipalities of the
State have been vested with the basic responsibilities
for planning and development, and the local governments
axe continually searching for ways to improve planning
and development; and
WHEREAS, The interests of the entire State are
affected by local planning and development, and the
General Assembly wishes to encourage the most sound and
effective planning and development; and
WHEREAS, The existing system of land use plans,
zoning ordinances and subdivision regulations places the
responsibility upon the individual developer for
selecting the land for development, constructing or
financing the cost of the necessary public facilities
including streets, water and sewer lines, and
occasionally small parks and school sites, and finally
the construction of dwellings or other structures; and
WHEREAS, The result of the existing system is that
development often occurs in a scattered and inefficient
pattern causing a sprawl effect, bypassing of developable
land, unnecessary public costs for school busing and
extension of major public facilities such as water and
sewer lines, and a pattern of development which lacks an
appearance of organization and design; and
WHEREAS, In the seventeenth, eighteenth, and
nineteenth centuries there existed in Maryland a system
of planning and development based upon precise physical
plans showing the location of streets, parks and open
spaces, sites for public improvements, dwellings, and
commercial and industrial structures, and examples of
these early planning efforts are found in such cities and
towns as Annapolis, Baltimore, Havre de Grace, Frederick,
Chestertown, Snow Hill, and Upper Marlboro as well as
Washington, D.C.; and
WHEREAS, These plans were implemented by the active
participation of government through construction of the
streets, installation of water and sewer lines, and the
siting of places for parks and other public facilities
with construction of individual dwellings and other
structures by private developers and builders; and
WHEREAS, An active role of local government in
establishing and constructing the streets, water and
sewer lines, and other public facilities for development
enables government to provide for the expansion of
existing urban areas in an orderly manner, observe
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